Fact #6: From Srivijayan to Majapahit, They Were Silent Assimilators of the Land of Ophir

6. The Srivijayan Empire was the later silent assimilator of this land of Ophir bringing with them their Hindu-Malayan culture. This leads to the gradual banishment of the remnants of the Maharlikan people (Ylayas) and their culture as they gradually were assimilated into the Hindu-Malayan culture. Those who maintained the Muian ways found the comfort of nature in the hinterlands. The indigenous people (in the Philippines) are now their living descendants.

Noted here that the Srivijayan Empire flourished more or less between 8th to 12th century CE (Common Era). Although it is not clear but most probably the root of the Srivijayan Empire might have started to flourish and gain notoriety as early as the 5th century around present-day Palembang, Sumatra. The land of Ophir on the other hand was a biblical name of that isles afar off mentioned in the Bible dating back to the time of King Solomon of Israel around 970 BC - 931 BC. Ophir was undisputedly rich of gold where the king of Israel obtained by the ships. Most of those who tried to locate the physical Ophir did find their ways all the way to the present day Philippine Archipelago. It has to be underlined therein that the biblical land of Ophir is the present day Philippine Islands rich of gold the Srivijayan Empire was so obsessed to have gained control of including its wealth and treasure.

Once again, bear in mind for a while that prior to the advent of the Hindu-Malayan culture of the Srivijayan-Majapahit Empire, the Ylayan civilization did flourish peacefully and abundantly in terms of mercantile with foreign traders, serene annual atmospheric condition, blissful health, great wealth, bountiful harvest and prosperity in their life in general. It was at this period when great volumes of gold and almaciga or almug (algum) tree (Scientific Name: Igathis philippinensis) were shipped out for the construction of King Solomon's temple. In short, it was their "golden age" as regarded by the forthcoming empire.

Moreover, the mere fact that I used the word "assimilator" in the heading is because there was no resistance from them as they have welcomed the new merchant-occupants (Srivijayan Empire) with open arms in the name of mutual respect and co-existence. Nevertheless, due to their contrasting cultural orientations, the atmosphere and the deep feeling of ethnocentrism forced the Ylayas to find comfort in the mountains and forests.

It might be unfair at this moment to purport that some of the indigenous people in the Philippines, who were fearsome warriors and practiced head-hunting, like the Kalingas of the Kalinga Province, did not evolve from the Ylayan blood but from the Srivijayan culture. This assessment finds reference to the existence of Kalinga Kingdom in ancient east India approximately 265 BCE. The region was scene of the bloody Kalinga War fought by Ashoka of the Maurya Empire.

Fact #4: The Filipino Race Descended from the Maharlikans Through the Ylayas

4. The later descendants of the Maharlikan race were those "Ylayas" (Isidro Escare Abeto, 1989) in a land called Ophir, from whom King Solomon obtained ships of gold. During that period the Ylayas have already well established their communities after the cataclysmic event that destroyed the Muian civilization.

The next 10,000 years, during and after the last ice age was a survival period for the Maharlikans in view of the last great upheaval they have undergone through, which was followed thereafter by the decrease of the Earth's temperature freezing most part of the hinterlands forcing them to thrive in the caves. It was during that period when waves of succeeding migrants begun to populate the land of Ophir.

It is interesting to acknowledge here the work of a world renowned American anthropologist in the person of Henry Otley Beyer, founder of the Anthropology Department of the University of the Philippines. Beyer proposed in his Migration Wave Theory that the peopling of the archipelago was a result of migrations in different time periods. The first group Beyer called the “Dawn Man” or cave men type of who, according to his theory, arrived around 250,000 years ago. Beyer was actually referring to the “escaped remnants” of Muian descendants (Maharlikans) who survived the last great upheaval and found refuge in the archipelago. They did not arrive as a result of unintentional wandering in search for food, as Beyer proposed, but rather already been here and aware of its existence as they used to visit the place during the Muian times. This fact supports the Core Population Theory of Felipe Landa Jocano, another known anthropologist of the University of the Philippines who refuted Beyer’s migration theory. Jocano instead did propose that the first people of Southeast Asia (including the Philippines) were products of a long process of evolution and migration. His research indicates that they shared more or less the same culture, beliefs, practices and even similar tools and implements.

The second wave of migrants in Beyer's theory were the so-called “Negritos” who, according to Beyer, came around or between 25,000 to 30,000 years ago. These group fused in their communities and culture with the already established Maharlikan settlements, socialized and intermarried with the Maharlikan people. These migrant people came from the neighboring islands in the south, from Indonesia and Malaysia through land bridges. From that point of origin being in the south, going to north (ilaya meaning "upper part" or "north") to the Maharlikan’s direction of location, the next migrating people (Third Wave A and B, between 6,000 to 500 years ago) did refer to them the ylayas, a term which became prevalent as being referred to the "people of the north".

It has to be noticed here that there was a reversed pattern of migrations, first, from the Maharlikan group going outside, and then from the outside coming to the Maharlikan territory. The explanation was that, these migrating people coming into the land of Maharlika (Ophir) were on the clandestine process of revisiting their true origin as told in their oral traditions. This was true to both the Indonesian's Srivijayan and Majapahit empires, respectively.

The advent and emergence of the Ylayan culture, which was an assimilation of the surviving Maharlikans and foreign migrants (second and third waves) paved way for the revival of the Muian ways through their system of governance, arts, belief, medicine, and in their knowledge of the supernatural. It has to be noted that the people of the Pre-European Philippines were mostly animist (who really did not worship the spirits of nature but rather honored them in a less elaborated rites) have records or books of mystical in nature. These knowledge or abilities traced back from the Muian period.

It should not also be confused that the term ilaya (ylaya) has no connection with the term Malaya, such that of the Malayan Peninsula or Malaysia, which refers to the land far south-west of the then land of Ophir.

Facts About the Maharlikan Race

Unfortunately, most of the Maharlikan consciousness movements nowadays are tracing the wrong lineage of information in their presentations of "who the real Maharlikan people were".

First and foremost, the real Maharlikan people were a race of spiritually advanced civilization whose level of consciousness surpasses the level of our spirituality. They were the descendants of the Muian people.

Second, the real Maharlikans lived earlier, in the pre-historic times, when the world was much younger, before and after the last great upheaval until after the last ice age.

Third, the Maharlikans were not warriors contrary to prevailing notions because during their times they have no enemies or in conflict with other races, except with nature's law of balance and restoration that destroyed the grandeur of their civilization.

Fourth, the later descendants of the Maharlikan race were those "Ylayas" (Isidro Escare Abeto, 1989) in a land called Ophir, from whom King Solomon obtained ships of gold. During that period the Ylayas have already well established their communities after the cataclysmic event that destroyed the Muian civilization.

Fifth, the Kalantiaw Code (be it a hoax or not) was a later version of a much older code observed during the times of Ophir.

Sixth, the Srivijayan Empire was the later silent assimilator of this land of Ophir bringing with them their Hindu-Malayan culture. This leads to the gradual banishment of the remnants of the Maharlikan people (Ylayas) and their culture as they gradually were assimilated into the Indo-Malayan culture. Those who maintained the Muian ways found the comfort of nature in the hinterlands. The indigenous people (in the Philippines) are now their living descendants.

Seventh, the Srivijayan or Majapahit Empires were aware of the golden age in the history of the Maharlikan people. They themselves inclined to believe they were also descendants of the Maharlikans so they adopted almost everything pertaining the Maharlikan civilization.

Eighth, the nation's treasury of the Maharlikan people were so abundant that when under the Srivijayan-Majapahit Empire these were accumulated and taken as part of the empires’ treasury being the custodians of those wealth meant (only) for the Maharlikan nation.

Nineth, titles like rajah, datu or lakan were of Hindu-Malayan origins. Maharlikan people have no titles except being “maharlikans” which means men of renown, great men or men from the great plane.

Tenth, the Hindu-Malayan people or empires retained the former's title maharajah of the maharlikan from the mahar-loka which later gave rise to what others are now claiming as the Maharlikans (the Filipinos).

NOTE: The Tagean-Tallano clan who are claiming to be the sole owners of the entire archipelago based on a document known as the Original Certificate of Title No. T-01-1, do not belong to the genuine maharlikan lineage. Like the late Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos, the Tagean-Tallano clan were only among the custodians, by virtue of obligations, of the wealth of the Maharlikan kingdom meant for the Filipino people.